10 years tomorrow
You have helped add “sane” to my insane life
Without whom, the books wouldn’t have been written
the countries stretched between our fingers gone unexplored
🙏🍷🧎
I love this novel...and i love
@CoronaSamizdat
appalling that NOT ONE major literary magazines/newspaper review this Complete Arlt
shameful
all the social media surrounding books-of-the-moment, yet this extraordinary grown breaking novel re-published in full goes unnoticed
After mourning the death of a dear friend a poet, & organizing her memorial, i realized i was too emotional in how I reacted here. So for now simple:
Support our profession: fellow writers & indie publishers 🍷✍️ 🙏
My weekend
Herschel 07769 is a buddy read with
@21stCscribe
@rob_rubsam
Berger, ways of seeing, about looking, another way of telling, ...Barthes, camera lucida, geoff dyer, the ongoing moment, terry barnett, criticizing photographs, Stephen Shore, The Nature of Photographs
@_ryanruby_
AFD are deranged....and yet, their rise to power and the image of them holding a flag is the natural conclusion of their hate...if this doesnt show how deranged Germany often is...or how appalling the behavior of the Israeli Far-Right (and the idf/Bibi coalition ), dont know what
taking my wife to airport m, she’s off for her 3 mnth business trip, aka, Bob’s uninterrupted writing qtr & submission pd
in the meantime, reading this tonight & tmrw. Looking forward. The first chapter is a brilliant & fun 9- pg sentence
@IneluctableQuak
@Dalkey_Archive
“C’etait un Rendez-vous
@GAmdahl52775
This book, high octane brilliance 🔥🔥
Read with interludes to catch my breath, Gary mad prose scorches🚗
@GAmdahl52775
brilliant scream leaves does current American novels gasping . 🏁
Published by
@CoronaSamizdat
, read it.
@_ryanruby_
great review. maybe the best, smartest and most thoughtful i've read
i love her essays, love her political stances & thinking, respect her as a debater, chess player & marxist
her novels bore me and i find them 'Irish Lit' light...then again, she is ONLY 33...decades to grow
Today, reading this extraordinary collection.
Published in 2016, LOOK has grown even more in stature and significance.
Necessary reading.
READ this poet.
Solmaz Sharif, LOOK
🙏🧎♂️
@GraywolfPress
#solmazshrif
Hurray!!!
My favorite book of poetry this year. I am thrilled. Have read With My Back to the World three times this year.
I even told
@VChangPoet
I thought her collection would win. lol
Han Kang and Victoria Chang in one day.
So happy today
🎉🎉🎉🍷🙏🙏💛💛
Winner of The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2024 is Victoria Chang (
@VChangPoet
) for 'with my back to the world' (
@CorsairBooks
) Congratulations Victoria!
@_ryanruby_
indeed
it is in the nature of power to manipulate language no matter its illegibility in order to legitimize itself
no better example than israel at the moment and our american leaders to support their and other hegemony
Today, Toronto feels like London, a city who sits deeply in one of the chambers of my heart. So too, Hong Kong
I’m reading the brilliant Hong Konger/Glaswegian poet
@timtimtmi
new collection The Tatoo Collector published by
@NineArchesPress
I’ve awaited for a year
Read!
💚
@yalereview
beautiful essay.....i wonder if
@yalereview
or Christina is familar with my friend Zun Lee and his extraordinary series on Black Life in America, called Fade Resistance...a remarkable series he has been working on for a decade
@jerichobrown
for anyone NOT familiar with the insanity of Williams' case and potential execution, please consider this
"DNA evidence proves Marcellus Williams is innocent and the prosecuting attorney seeks to vacate his wrongful conviction, yet Missouri has scheduled his execution, Sept. 24
God damn 🔥
20 pages in
this fine Poet IS the Love Child of Baldwin & Toomer
This book does NOT NEED US!
BUT, WE NEED THIS BOOK, …for a long long time.
As a poet, Expat American, reader, I NEED this book.
@Danez_Smif
, making us right!
Minnesota, God damn!
🔥🧎♂️🙏🙏❤️
I did not know this writer/memoirist.
Though I love his ex partner Sophie Calle work.
I saw this book on a feed this week, intriguing.
Curling up to read & looking forward. I love finding new books/writers who are not on my radar. Lifeblood
@McNallyEditions
🙏🍷
I’ve been buying and reading
@CoronaSamizdat
books for two years & if you haven’t been listening to me, well listen to Art
@winslowlit
of
@thenation
the ONLY publisher to publish the Complete Roberto Arlt in English
an extraordinary roster of depth
@HarschRick424
genius
the US and the Supreme Court are a murderous regime
same horrid Justices who voted to ban the enshrined woman's right to reproductive free REFUSES to ban the death penalty and has denied the stay of the execution of an INNOCENT (dna vindicated) MAN
Marcellus Williams
horror
BREAKING: The
@USSupremeCourt
has denied a stay of execution and declined to grant review to Marcellus Williams, allowing his execution to go forward at 6 p.m. CT today.
@LuccaLazaro
First chapters, of the best in American literature I knew DFW, even though this book was finalized by his editor, still extraordinary. His death still hurts. Profoundly better, even in its imperfect mess is better than Ferrante
Let’s help
@TiltedAxisPress
, one of my fave Indie UK publishers. 🙏🍷🧎♂️
These published one of my fave Vietnam writers Thuan and one of my fave young Chinese writers Yang Ge and many great Afro-Asian writers.
🙏🙏🧎♂️🧎♂️✍️✍️
We are reaching out to our community for help – so that we can continue doing what we do best: publishing trailblazing literature in translation from languages across the globe.
Please consider donating and / or sharing our Crowdfunder
🔗
Taking a break from Krasznahorkai alchemical prose, I return toward the poet who first taught me a fine way to spend a life.
40 years after first falling in love, I reread
Arguably, the most beautiful and astonishing English debuts I know
The one and only
@FaberBooks
Congratulations to
@KatyEvansBush
! Whose poem ‘From lines by Kenneth Patchen
#3
', from Joe Hill Makes His Way into the Castle published by
@CBeditions
, is Highly Commended in The Forward Prizes for Poetry.
Read it in The Forward Book of Poetry 2025.
@IneluctableQuak
But mfa writers seem more focused on promotion of voice, careers, awards w/an often anemically thin reading experience
Breath of reading/exposure seems rare
Maybe it’s N America, not sure
I focus on my writing & try to read as widely (around world & multilingual) possible
@TrinaKrystal
@TTCnotices
EXACTLY....it is madness...and
@TTCnotices
@TTCNewsroom
media does NOT care about the concerns or the safety of the passengers...it is getting ridiculous...just today, i sent
@TTChelps
a photo my 16 yr old brazilian student sent of food, mess and dog feces on the subway, absurd
@JohannesGoranss
agree
as i've written many times over the last two days, including today under
@DonMeeChoi
, herself both a wonderful poet and translator, for me it is INCUMBENT on those of us who write to demand that the translator is our partner, another writer & gets EQUAL billing
i do
The Sewanee Review is pleased to announce that Jericho Brown (
@jerichobrown
) is the recipient of the 2024 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry.
Read the full announcement here:
@alexander_61609
@Stanford
wow...the senior profs (those tenured) enabled this? & voted the Stegners done for?...heartbreaking, disorienting and frankly, feels to me symptomatic of the indentured servitude that many (not all) tenured faculty cultivate & wield over younger instructors, especially in writing
Productive weekend:
2 poems finished ; 2 submissions; 3 books:
@IneluctableQuak
@VChangPoet
(re read With Our Back to World) & Mother by M.S. Redcherries
4 pints with a horror novelist
abt to re-watch for first time in 30 yrs. love Alec Guinness
@21stCscribe
: seen it? 🕵️♂️
@alexander_61609
“He felt Herakles' hand move on his thigh and Geryon's head went back like a poppy in a breeze"
autobiography of red was the first carson i read, 25 years ago or so...i was so. shocked by its power, beauty and innovation, i re-read it again back to back....stunning
Today, one of my poems, A Cord in the Wall, left behind, was published by
@ocean_pounds
Still tinkering, as I guess we always to, until the end.
Thank you so much
@leekasing
.ca
Dedicated to my friend, the British writer
@21stCscribe
🙏🧎♂️
Today
@ocean_pounds
published my poem The voice of two pipes songing in their Monday Art post magazine
I rarely write short poems but this is part of a series of micro poems inspired by a walk I had with writer
@21stCscribe
through High Gate Cemetery last November
🙏🧎♂️
What does a writer look like after spending 2 whole days of a beautifully sunny 3-day weekend inside, completely revising a 112 pg poetry manuscript which had been earlier submitted to a publisher ?
Time travel, please 🙏
😅🥃
HAN KANG!!!!
oh, soooo happy.
a brilliant novelist
a thoughtful, kind person.
my students from Korea are going to be thrilled.
Super happy for her!
😍😍😍
@DannyDrinksWine
Cassavetes is, for me, the greatest Ameican filmmaker of post wwii...and arguably, the greatest American film about family, alcoholism and broken hearts is below:
Now for something celebratory
@larapawson
Spent Light my favorite book of English prose this year
nominated for The Goldsmiths Prize as best book of the year
Have read it twice & t
nothing like it.
A poets book really ethnography of life
Read!
Published by
@CBeditions
@_ryanruby_
when i was in university, he was the apogee of an editor...and
@Harpers
as important, sometimes more, than the
@NewYorker
...a towering treasure to american letters...
@pourfairelevide
had a HUGE argument 2 months ago about this with my academic manager & some fellow teachers, they even did a workshop/pd on using chatGPT to lesson plan!!
told them: "you are betraying our integrity as teachers, our profession & contributing to plagiarism, academic duplicity
Ok. 4 hrs of morning writing and now starting
@larapawson
previous book before Champions league
That will make 4 read
@CBeditions
books read in the last month. Finished two of Charles Boyce’s last week. This is a BRILLIANT publishing house. 🙏💙
First 10 pts fabulous. 🙏🎉🎉🍷
@ALAuchter
May I recommend the new poetry books published this year by
@CBeditions
poets
Brilliant and undercovered and under reviewed
P.s. they do not publish me so I’m saying that as a poet who admires the work 🙏🧎♂️🍷
@Danez_Smif
Omg same. I lived in Taiwan as kid. When I moved to USA, I thought cicada buzz was the power lines lol didn’t learn until I was in 20s though i worshipped the shells on trees. Kids, poets we got on the planet. 🙏🙏
@MarieMyungOkLee
@videshi_beti
love all 4 (available in english), each one extraordinary and different from the others
hoping this will lead to complete Han Kang ouevre being translated
it is hard to say which hits hardest for me, but as a poet im drawn strongest by The White Book
Human Acts also great
congratulations
@VChangPoet
on inclusion and congratulations on your nominee for the
@ForwardPrizes
Collection of the year
your work has been both a blessing & a liniment in my life, as a writer and reader, over the last 2 years.
timeless language, when silence was word
🌻
Read Victoria Chang's poem 'Untitled, 1960' in The Forward Book of Poetry 2025.
@VChangPoet
’s With My Back to the World (published by
@CorsairBooks
) is shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection.
If you do not know
@larapawson
extraordinary book or her brilliant publisher
@CBeditions
(a brilliant writer himself)
Buy this book
My favorite and most inspiring prose book of the year.
SERIOUSLY, trust me.
🙏🍷💛💛
Here is the memorial photograph for my brilliant and loving friend of 21 years, the Hong Kong/Toronto poet, writer, artist and most loving friend I’ve known, the incomparable Holly Lee 🙏💛
Read and seek out her work
I apologize for my overly emotional tweets last week
🙏🌻🧎♂️
@maxdaniellawton
A brilliant book. The 2nd Marias I read, after Heart So White. ….his trilogy is apogee of contemporary Spanish Lit. Crushed when he died
@brianhioe
yes...it was covered on
@NewsHour
, briefly...but they do cover and follow what happens in Taiwan...i think the world, western world, is (rightly) focused on Israel's genocidal behavior in Gaza....but everything is connected and people need to follow more clos what is happens
great video by my friend, brilliant London-based novelist/short story writer,
@21stCscribe
always thoughtful & insightful, we dont always agree but i love his analysis
as unlike most of booktubers, he considers books from a rich perspective
@VChangPoet
Lovely review of WMBTTW
@natalie_eilbert
@sammyzorba
after nature his, by far, weakest book..., and an early (his first) non-academic...he wasnt a poet but a novelist and thinker, so definitely read: The Emigrants (brilliant)
The Rings of Saturn (masterpiece) and Austerlitz (masterpiece) all extraordinary...Vertigo is decent
we MUST stop this execution of an innocent man....
MARCEULLUS WILLIAMS IS INNOCENT AND YET THE state of Missouri wants to still execute. please read and write
PLEASE WRITE THE GOVERNOR HERE
@TriciaLockwood
a remarkable, extravagantly beautiful take on Butler's memoir....i was reluctant to read it though I have read a lot of Molly's poems (that's what we non contesting poets do), ..will now swallow it. your essays (no surprise) in LRB are inextinshable "lumiere"-esque. grateful, bb
This brilliant essay & understanding of a book that deserves more readers.
@_ryanruby_
analysis and excavation of Young’s extraordinary novel makes an old cat like me excited.
Brilliance
@chrisvia
Please read.
@fisheri
@GAmdahl52775
🍷🙏
@NewYorker
@thebooksdesk
One of 20th century writers. Love his stories
His death photo is devastating. Maybe the most profoundly sad image of a writer (and as metaphor as accurate for a writer as I know)
Let’s help out. I’ve made a donation too
One of my favourite small Indie presses needs our help.
They deserve our help.
While you are at it, buy a book from one of their authors.
🙏🧎♂️💔🤍
1/ Your Sarabande team is okay, but we’re so sad to share that we had a break-in at our offices over the weekend. We want to send our thanks to the *many* neighbors and friends who have reached out to lend a hand and ask how to help. We’re overwhelmed by your kindness.
@chadwpost
well....i knew dave...and so to that twat in the bar, just a quick bit of dfw wisdom:
"Would that we scrutinize our technologies the way we scrutinize people."
in a letter to a friend, THAT is friendship
.i'd give anything to waste more of my time to listen & read more dave
@LeeSpencerlee36
🎉🎉🎉🥇🥇👏👏💛💛 great matches. The Zhou match was a real barn burner. A great test. Can’t wait until you wear good in Paris with your parents and grandmother in the audience 🙏🥇
"I admire all poets. Every poet who is writing is facing so much. It takes courage and conviction to be a poet, to write poetry. At every turn, poets face reasons to stop writing poetry.”
@VChangPoet
@CorsairBooks
Read our interview with Victoria Chang:
Today, I planted two golden mums for my dear friends Lee Ka-sing &Holly Lee
Holly, a poet and artist, died 10 days ago. A friend for 20 years. Tomorrow I will read for them.
Holly loved yellow and I promised Iris (daughter) & Lee Ka-sing that I would fix their garden
🙏💛
Day two with Solmaz Sarif.
Her second book even more extraordinary, brave, —afire .
As angry as Euripides.
As furious as Medea.
Spare light complex’d: Celan
As good as contemporary Poetry gets.
after Look has settled, read!
Customs, Solmaz Sharif.
@GraywolfPress
In that moment
when grandmother placed a letter on the sewing table, adrift white wove, weathered and veined
a palimpsest ring of tea stain and coin rust
her words tucked into her inheritance
a child under linen sifting through chicory, home.
@bernardtjoy
Yes. Both. And, The Branch Will Not Break,” James Wright; Affrilachia, Clay’s Quilt,” “A Parchment of Leaves”and “The Coal Tattoo,” by Silas House, Cold Mountain and any story of novel by William Gay.
NOT NOT Hillbilly Elegy !!
Read 3 poetry books , 3 plays & a screen play. Now:
Doss down w/one of my favorite books, period.
Herr inspired me to knife getting an MFA when I was 21, and travel instead & write journalism for 10 yrs
Read this book! 🥃
@21stCscribe
@CoronaSamizdat
@MollyYoung
@fisheri
This extraordinary book-length poem
Begun last night. One of my writing lighthouses
#cdwright
was one of my writing heroes
This remarkable book sets forth a map for poetry/prose toward fiction/history
Extraordinary. Read it.
❤️❤️🙏
@BloodaxeBooks
My pleasure Lara. Your book was such an unexpected treat going into it with no preconceptions and coming out with concussion in the best way, literary concussion
@21stCscribe
@CoronaSamizdat
❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏 I live this damn book. It is ironic, because while I was reading it I was always in my head imagining The Troubles. The language. And last night I started watching Ince Upon a Time in Northern Ireland 🙏
in 2003, i left the country of my birth
one of the reasons: I could abide living in a nation that abides with Nation-sanctioned murder
tonight the nation, and the state of Missouri, executed a man who exculpatory DNA evidence should have cleared
never again to live in the USA